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Rob OMahoney
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Hi,

I have two tables that I need to join. Part of that join includes a Year field, which is a 4 digit integer in my base table. However, in my join table it is only a 2 digit. So, i want to create a define field that cuts the first two digits out. This seems like it would be basic but I am having a rough time finding what function to use. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

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YEAR2D/I2 = YEAR - (INT(YEAR / 100) * 100) ;


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YEAR2D/I2=IMOD(YEAR, 100, 'I2');


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Rob OMahoney
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Thanks guys, I was so focused on strings that I forgot math.


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JohnB
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How about

YEAR2D/I2= YEAR-2000;

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Darin Lee
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YEAR2D/I2= YEAR-2000

works unless the date is 1999. You would need to add additional logic to test pre-and post-2000. The logic provide by Daniel and Waz works regardless of the century.

Which brings up the next question - Why in the world would you still have a table containing only a two-digit year?


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If YEAR is a year field with the format of YY, I do it this way;
YEAR/YY=2009;
YEARD/Y=YEAR;


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and make sure the field you're joining to has no leading zeros.
if the field is '09' then your integer 9 won't join to it.
if your source file is Oracle, then the EDIT function will trip you up, it doesn't xlate to sql.
and the smart-date is only a virtual mask, so that might not work.
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